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L. B. PRAHAR. v HANDLE GAP FASTENING FOR HAND BAG FRAMES.

Patented'Deo. 1, 1885.

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LOUIS B. PRAHAR, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND CHARLES S. SHEPARD, OF SAME PLACE.

HANDLE-CAP FASTENING FOR HAND-BAG FRAMES.

EPEQIFZCATZON forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,651, dated December 1, 1885.

Application filed October 10, 1885. Serial No. 179,511

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS B. PRAHAR, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Handle-Gap Fastenings for Hand-Bag Frames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a side elevation of a hand-bag frame to which my improvement has been applied, one of the handle-caps being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a part of the same, the handle-cap being removed. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a part of the same, showing a slight modification in the form of the handle-cap posts, and showing a handlecap in dotted lines.

The object of this invention is to provide handle-cap fastenings for hand -bag frames constructed in such a manner as to be reliable in use and much less expensive in manufacture than handle-cap fastenings constructed in the ordinary manner.

The invention consists in the combination, with the hand-bag frame and the handlecap having perforations in its opposite sides, of posts rigidly attached to the said frame, and having their upper ends bent inward and 'inserted in the perforations of the said handlecap, as will be hereinafter fully described and then claimed.

A represents an ordinary hand-bag frame,

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to the top of which, upon the opposite sides of, and equally distant from, its center are riveted or otherwise secured the lower ends of pairs of posts B. The posts B may be made ornamental or plain and have knobs or shoulders 0 formed upon them at a little distance from their upper ends. The upper parts of the posts B of each pair, a little below the knobs or shoulders C, are bent inward or toward each other, and their upper ends are passed through perforations D in the opposite sides of the handle-cap E, so as to hinge the said cap to the said posts. The upper ends of the posts B have small knobs or heads F, formed upon them, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or are bent downward, as shown in Fig. 3, to prevent the said ends from being drawn out of the perforations D by a heavy strain or pull upon the hand-bag handle.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, with a hand-bag frame, A, and the handle-caps E, having perforations in their opposite sides, of the pairs of posts B, rigidly attached to the said frame, and having their upper ends bent inward and inserted in the perforations of the said handle-caps, substantially as herein shown and described, whereby the said handle-caps will be securely hinged to the said frame, as set forth.

LOUIS B. PRAHAR.

Witnesses:

EDGAR TATE, EDwD. M. CLARK. 

